
Tuesday’s ad is for No. 3 Scotch Ale, from William Younger’s, possibly from 1913. I like its simplicity, and especially the beautiful label.

By Jay Brooks

Tuesday’s ad is for No. 3 Scotch Ale, from William Younger’s, possibly from 1913. I like its simplicity, and especially the beautiful label.

By Jay Brooks
By Jay Brooks

Today’s infographic features a map of the 13 original colonies and the historic breweries located in each of them.
Click here to see the map full size.
By Jay Brooks

Friday’s ad is for Birra di Borgofranco, a stylized ad for the Italian beer, possibly from 1911. I couldn’t find anything about the brewery itself. Still, what’s with the waitresses hat. That’s a pretty odd-looking chapeau, or should I say cappello. And the complexion on the man about to spill that beer on his tuxedo? Is he a zombie?

By Jay Brooks

Thursday’s ad is for Bürgerliches Brauhaus, a 19th century Munich brewery that in the 1920s merged with Löwenbräu. This poster was created by famed German artist Ludwig Hohlwein.

By Jay Brooks

Today’s infographic is an interesting one. It’s a chart of beer styles created by Brian Roth, marketing director for Leon Farmer & Company, a beer distributor in Georgia.

From the Leon Farmer website, you can download a ginormous version of the chart.
By Jay Brooks

Wednesday’s ad is another one for Biere Paillette, from Brasserie Paillette in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France. This one shows a woman with a beer in her hand, sitting on a wooden cask and floating high above an ocean sunrise (or is that sun setting?), with a large ocean liner coming toward us full steam ahead. What does all this imagery mean? I haven’t a clue. Does anyone?

By Jay Brooks

Tuesday’s ad is for Paillette Speciale Pils, from Brasserie Paillette in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France. The ad was created by Herve Morvan, who’s oftern referred to as The Genius of French Poster Art.

By Jay Brooks

Monday’s ad is for Bieres de Longwy, a French beer, I believe. That’s a guess, but Longwy is in northeastern France. Why doesn’t every pint of beer have such a lovely woman swimming in it?

By Jay Brooks

This is an interesting piece of breweriana I stumbled upon. It’s from around 1900 and apparently is “an instruction manual how to efficiently drink Pilsner Urquell.” Although Google Translates it as “A glass of Pilsner Urquell in one fell swoop,” so I’m not entirely certain. It looks like a postcard to me.

Click here to see the advertisement full size.
